Wednesday, February 5, 2014
South Bay, Florida - January 2014
While exploring the area from Moore Haven we found a county RV park southeast of Lake Okeechobee and decided to move there for a few days. It offered full hookups and WiFi along with better access to Lake Okeechobee by our kayaks.
These pictures aren't that great, but provide a view from the Lake Okeechobee Levee that shows a border canal and then what looks like more land than water. But there are lots of pools in this area while when we got on a levee on the north side of the lake we saw a lot more water.
These were our neighbors about twenty feet behind our site.
This wasn't our site, but shows the little canal around the campground and an alligator nearby.
We went kayaking along the canal and out into one of the pools.
Moore Haven, Florida - January 2014
We've stayed at the Ortona South Corps of Engineers Campground in Moore Haven, Florida several times, and again in early January. Its at a lock just southwest of Lake Okeechobee on a canal that connects the Gulf of Mexico at Ft. Myers to the AtlanticOcean at Stuart. We've found it an interesting place to watch mostly pleasure craft lock through and watch nature.
The south end of Lake Okeechobee includes huge sugar cane farms. We drove by acres and acres of fields in all stages of production with huge processing plants and there are always fires on the horizon where the residue from harvesting is burnt off. The soil here is as black and rich looking as anything we've seen, including the Mississippi River Delta.
This was a particularly attractive boat that locked through when we were there.
This was our site looking at the canal. Notice the right rear tire is low. It turned out that there was a big cut on the back of the tire attributed to road hazard.
The south end of Lake Okeechobee includes huge sugar cane farms. We drove by acres and acres of fields in all stages of production with huge processing plants and there are always fires on the horizon where the residue from harvesting is burnt off. The soil here is as black and rich looking as anything we've seen, including the Mississippi River Delta.
Friday, January 10, 2014
December 2013
Spanish Fort, Alabama
We spent a few nights at the Meaher State Park in Spanish Fort, on the north shore of Mobile Bay. I was a bit surprised to see alligators.
Colorful skies over the I-10 Bridge to Mobile
There were some white pelicans chasing cormorant and successfully stealing some of their catch.
We've been in several Bass Pro Shops. But this was the first with a restaurant/bar. It was pretty neat and good food.
Carabelle, FL
Ho-Hum RV Park in Carabelle, FL is a bi-annual stop for us. Some of the sites are within feet of the shallow ocean waters here and the sunrise and sunset are both great because being in the panhandle we get both on the water.
The park is covered with gravel. Our site was outlined in little ridges of gravel and I did my best to do as little damage to the work as I could getting into our spot. After we got settled a man came out with a little red wagon with a roll of string, some stakes, a rake and tape measure. He measured the distances from the undamaged ridges of gravel and then ran some string along the ridges I damaged and carefully built the fragile site dividers again. With so many arriving and leaving daily he has some job security.
Palm Beach, FL
We took a boat tour from Riviera Beach across the inlet to Palm Beach Island and heard about 10-50+ million dollar homes, some of which were winter homes. We didn't get many pictures of the homes, but we did get a couple of the boats.
For those needing directions (not I) there was an information tree.
We visited Whitehall, the estate built for Mr. Henry Flagler's wife on Palm Beach. Mr. Flagler built the original Florida railroad that brought goods and people to new areas of Florida.
Check out the ceilings
There were some of the most unique clocks that I've ever seen.
We spent a few nights at the Meaher State Park in Spanish Fort, on the north shore of Mobile Bay. I was a bit surprised to see alligators.
Carabelle, FL
The park is covered with gravel. Our site was outlined in little ridges of gravel and I did my best to do as little damage to the work as I could getting into our spot. After we got settled a man came out with a little red wagon with a roll of string, some stakes, a rake and tape measure. He measured the distances from the undamaged ridges of gravel and then ran some string along the ridges I damaged and carefully built the fragile site dividers again. With so many arriving and leaving daily he has some job security.
Palm Beach, FL
We took a boat tour from Riviera Beach across the inlet to Palm Beach Island and heard about 10-50+ million dollar homes, some of which were winter homes. We didn't get many pictures of the homes, but we did get a couple of the boats.
There were some of the most unique clocks that I've ever seen.
October 2013
Airville, PA
In October we visited an interesting area of Pennsylvania near where the Susquehanna River empties into Chesapeake Bay. We visited the Indian Steps Museum established about a 10 years ago by a local attorney/hunter. The name comes from steps constructed into the steep banks of the river by American Indians as long as 10,000 years ago.
We attended the Annapolis Boat Show and it was a little chilly
In October we visited an interesting area of Pennsylvania near where the Susquehanna River empties into Chesapeake Bay. We visited the Indian Steps Museum established about a 10 years ago by a local attorney/hunter. The name comes from steps constructed into the steep banks of the river by American Indians as long as 10,000 years ago.
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